It is written by Billy Shore and looks at how new journalism and social media may actually help to publicise social inequality.
Billy writes that
Modern media celebrates consumption, not deprivation, and focuses on celebrity and personality,
However he continues
in another way, and for the first time in history, the poor are no longer invisible at all, or at least don't have to be. We have instant access to information about virtually everything today -- as close as the computer on our desk or the phone in our pocket - and that includes access to who is hurting, left out, left behind, and why. In just a few minutes on Twitter one can link to everything from statistics to eyewitness accounts,
As he concludes
Social media can't ensure social justice. But it can affect the invisibility that is the first barrier to achieving it
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